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 Aug 1 2005, 03:23 PM
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http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit_r559.html
Looks like they've taken to using the rear hazcam to do a lot of monitoring for dust devils while it has a prime view of the plains. |
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Aug 2 2005, 01:08 PM
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Is that a big DD in the distance on the left or an optical glare effect?
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Aug 2 2005, 01:42 PM
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QUOTE (Burmese @ Aug 2 2005, 08:08 AM) Is that a big DD in the distance on the left or an optical glare effect?  Did anyone predict that the Martian dust devils would sweep the solar panels on the rovers clean, in the same way that a couple of scientists predicted Io's active volcanoes just days before Voyager 1 discovered them back in 1979? I am still amazed at the good fortune MER had in that regard, thanks to Mars. Would Viking have worked as well if the landers were only solar-powered? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Aug 2 2005, 02:02 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Aug 2 2005, 01:42 PM) Did anyone predict that the Martian dust devils would sweep the solar panels on the rovers clean, in the same way that a couple of scientists predicted Io's active volcanoes just days before Voyager 1 discovered them back in 1979? Ctrl-C...Ctrl-V to the ask Steve list  Doug |
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Burmese Rear View Monitoring For Dust Devils Aug 1 2005, 03:23 PM
RNeuhaus Yes, I think it so since its view is of panoramic ... Aug 1 2005, 03:46 PM djellison I saw a folder full of small RHAZ at the Exp. a fe... Aug 1 2005, 03:53 PM
jaredGalen QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 1 2005, 04:53 PM)I saw... Aug 1 2005, 04:19 PM Nirgal QUOTE (jaredGalen @ Aug 1 2005, 06:19 PM)And ... Aug 2 2005, 10:38 AM Bill Harris Wonderful! I usually use the Hazcam images to... Aug 2 2005, 12:39 PM jaredGalen QUOTE (Burmese @ Aug 2 2005, 02:08 PM)Is that... Aug 2 2005, 03:19 PM |
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